Fake but Accurate!
Posted on 12/18/2007 9:37:29 AM PST by Khankrumthebulgar
S.J. OFFICER'S RUSE BECAME EVIDENCE By Leslie Griffy Mercury News Article Launched: 12/16/2007 01:37:24 AM PST There was one major problem with the Santa Clara County crime lab report that implicated a San Jose man of sexual assault: It wasn't true. The document was a fake, created by a San Jose police detective. The crime lab analyst who purportedly prepared the document doesn't exist. The number used to identify it was false. Even so, detective Matthew Christian testified as though the phony report were authentic. The case unraveled when the defense attorney sought the résumé of the lab analyst, only to learn there was no such person. Christian then remembered that he had concocted the report in an attempt to trick the defendant, Michael Kerkeles, 54, into admitting that he had forced a developmentally disabled neighbor into sexual acts. It was an acceptable tactic. But Christian said that by the time he was called to testify, more than a year later, he had forgotten the ruse.
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He even forgot he was the one who came up with the name of the fake lab technician.
Well if he isn't jailed for lying he'll be fired for doing it badly.
> “It was an acceptable tactic.”
The whole problem started right here. It was NOT an acceptable tactic to begin with.
I think krb’s in the clear here.
But Christian said that by the time he was called to testify, more than a year later, he had forgotten the ruse.
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DOH!
“It was an acceptable tactic”
Lying by cops is now acceptable?
The victim will probably not get justice because the court will throw out the confession based on the phony form.
The fact that everyone knows she was raped by this guy is irrelevant to the court because there isn't admissible evidence to convince a jury.
The criminal is free to rape someone else. No I would not want to be a victim in our system of justice.
This isn’t a dirty cop.
This is how police work has been getting done since the ‘50’s when the Warren Court decided criminals should get special rights.
The cop put a fake document in front of the suspect because he might confess and provide details about the rape that only the rapist would know. Then that could be used in court because the criminal assumes he’s already caught.
If the suspect is innocent, he knows the document is fake and he can’t provide details only the rapist would know.
“Confession”? RTFA.
Not until you commit a crime.
My dad doesn’t like cops either.
I wonder how many other concocted pieces of evidence are out there. If he forgot it must be fairly routine.
The real shame is this will call into question every case this cop ever worked. How many guilty people will now appeal their conviction because of these lies?
“The fact that everyone knows she was raped by this guy “
Was everyone there?
It’s crap like this that made me rethink the death penalty.
Here’s an idea for a new law. Anyone caught falsifying evidence in a case gets the sentence that would have been handed down in that case.
So apparently not only can they make up anything they want and present it for evidence, but based on their “belief” the judge can leave this on the books. spew!!! disgusting!!!
Except he was so hell-bent on sending an innocent man to prison he submitted it as evidence.
Not only was it an assault on the “suspect,” it robs the victim of justice and poisons all law enforcement our judicial system.
That officer should spend the rest of his life in prison. In general population.
Bravo Sierra!
The cops are looking to get convictions. If they convict the right person, will that's nice too.
Fake but Accurate!
Except he didn't do it. If anything is letting rapists run free, it's letting them off the hook by convicting other people.
But I guess "facts" are secondary to people who get a stiffy at the thought of police power.
--at least it wasn't one of those "wrong address" SWAT team situations where somebody got killed---
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